Turning Towards the Mystery

Description

Levine offers a fascinating and insightful description of mindfulness, loving kindness and service (the three fundamentals of Buddhism). His text is rich with characters immediately recognisable as leaders of the modern Eastern spirituality movement, from the Dalai Lama to Timothy Leary. With compassion and healing, Levine offers the message that personal peace and transcendence is possible for all.

Stephen Levine is a poet and teacher of meditation and groundbreaking healing techniques that have been widely applied over the last 25 years. His bestselling books have sold more than one million copies combined.

An account from the heart about the process of opening by a well-known and much loved teacher.--Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and A Heart as Wide as the World No Small Feat. A Spiritual masterpiece filled with honesty, insight and meaning.--Richard Carlson, author of the bestselling Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...And It's All Small Stuff Stephen Levine is one of our wisest living teachers...With Turning Toward the Mystery, he continues to inspire.--Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and Healing the Soul of America "A remarkable, awesome book written with a poetic velvet pen and a simplicity and honesty that is powerfully inspiring."--Gerald G. Jampolsky MD, author of Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All "Levine continues where Jack Kerouac left off...Breathtakingly honest, deeply moving, highly recommended."--Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Eat More, Weigh Less "Levine conveys unfolding insights in fresh language that breathe unique vitality into the sometimes cool idiom of American Buddhist writers."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)